If you study Hitler's rise to power as a dictator, you note that the act that gave him dictatorial powers was initially temporary and only became permanent after it was due to end.
I just took a couple of classes. Nothing major, just a unix class and an algebra class. My combined textbook cost was over two hundred dollars. So my experience leads me to believe that most textbooks are in fact over a hunred dollars.
Huh. How weird; Santa Fe enacted a "living wage" piece of legislation last year, increasing the city's minimum wage to $8.50 right now, $9.50 next year and $10.50 the year after and, as far as I'm aware, it has only had positive effects on the economy.
And the whole "companies have to raise prices to be able to make the extra money they're paying out" thing doesn't take into account that pretty much your largest single expense every month is either your rental payment or your mortgage payment, which is fixed rather than fluctuating.
See, now, we can see it like that. But when you're a multi-billion company, the idea of moving away from the business model that has served you so well so far may seem more intimidating.
The same way that the American continent was discovered despite there being millions of people living there already.
Discovered doesn't mean "first discovered". It means something more like "finally discovered by a white human male with either a degree or a lot of money".
This theory is known as "security through obscurity" and has been discussed many times in many places such as here and here.
There's a lot of argument back and forth on this point; many believe that a system that is well designed will not be vulnerable, period. Many think that there's no such thing as a secure system and that security through obscurity is the only type of security.
Problem being that if Microsoft were to support its products for GNU/Linux, it allows businesses etc who would otherwise use Windows as their platform AND office as their office suite to use GNU/Linux as their platform and office as their suite, losing something like a hundred dollars per computer.
Even for Microsoft, a hundred dollars per computer is a lot of money.
sounds just like the US population, if I'm honest about it. Massive amounts of poverty and illiteracy and diseases-whose-cures-can't-be-afforded-in-a-for-pr ofit-health-system kinda stuff going on here all the time.
Seems to me that with the number of two gig gmail accounts out there these days, you really don't *need* to have all that great storage on the computer itself. I know I'm running a crappy crappity craptop with less hard drive space on it than the typical gmail account offers, that I have over a hundred gmail invitations that I can give away at my leisure, that if I became tired of that I could use yahoo's briefcase service etc.
There're so many offsite storage solutions available for free to the average user that lacking a hard drive worth crud isn't really a problem anymore. Hell, if it has over 24 megs of RAM then you could take a couple of blueflops floppies and load your entire OS into it every time you wanted to use it, have a graphical browser and a word processor and other stuff available to you and still offload anything you want to save to offsite storage.
In fact, this is sounding like a decent business plan. Maybe I should make a few craptops designed around this principal and see how they sell. I could probably make a reasonable profit if people were willing to pay fifty dollars for 'em.
See, now, I archive emails in gmail a hell of a lot, so I do use gmail search all the time and have to say that if it's a choice between either searching through folders/looking back eight months for the email from the people at FAFSA that told me how ot get in touch with them, and searching for the word "FAFSA", I'd rather do the search.
When I think of all the emails I've deleted due to only having 1MB or 2MB to use, and then I think of my situation now where I can hit archive and forget about it until I need to search for a keyword, well, if Gmail would have come along several years ago then my life would have been a lot simpler.
Strictly speaking, vegetarianism is a lifestyle choice, not a dietary one. The diets are carnivorous, omnivorous, and herbivorous.
Small point, but worthwhile noting whenever someone claims they're a dietary vegetarian. They're not - they're a dietary omnivore living a vegetarian lifestyle.
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If you study Hitler's rise to power as a dictator, you note that the act that gave him dictatorial powers was initially temporary and only became permanent after it was due to end.
I just took a couple of classes. Nothing major, just a unix class and an algebra class. My combined textbook cost was over two hundred dollars. So my experience leads me to believe that most textbooks are in fact over a hunred dollars.
Huh. How weird; Santa Fe enacted a "living wage" piece of legislation last year, increasing the city's minimum wage to $8.50 right now, $9.50 next year and $10.50 the year after and, as far as I'm aware, it has only had positive effects on the economy.
And the whole "companies have to raise prices to be able to make the extra money they're paying out" thing doesn't take into account that pretty much your largest single expense every month is either your rental payment or your mortgage payment, which is fixed rather than fluctuating.
http://www.torrentreactor.to/torrents/view_56086
Maybe all the bombs that the US dropped on the middle east?
Are you honestly positing that language has to make sense?
See, now, we can see it like that. But when you're a multi-billion company, the idea of moving away from the business model that has served you so well so far may seem more intimidating.
Here's the mirrordot mirror of the symphony OS page.
Didn't I just say that?
The same way that the American continent was discovered despite there being millions of people living there already.
Discovered doesn't mean "first discovered". It means something more like "finally discovered by a white human male with either a degree or a lot of money".
This theory is known as "security through obscurity" and has been discussed many times in many places such as here and here .
There's a lot of argument back and forth on this point; many believe that a system that is well designed will not be vulnerable, period. Many think that there's no such thing as a secure system and that security through obscurity is the only type of security.
"His promise: [next product] will make [problem we have always said we will solve but have never been able to] a thing of the past."
Sounds like the formula for the typical microsoft line.
Thank god someone said it. Now mod him/her up so everyone else can see that we're not all nuts.
It's not necessarily anti-Linux, but it's certainly anti-GNU.
Problem being that if Microsoft were to support its products for GNU/Linux, it allows businesses etc who would otherwise use Windows as their platform AND office as their office suite to use GNU/Linux as their platform and office as their suite, losing something like a hundred dollars per computer.
Even for Microsoft, a hundred dollars per computer is a lot of money.
I'll drink to that!
sounds just like the US population, if I'm honest about it. Massive amounts of poverty and illiteracy and diseases-whose-cures-can't-be-afforded-in-a-for-pr ofit-health-system kinda stuff going on here all the time.
Seems to me that with the number of two gig gmail accounts out there these days, you really don't *need* to have all that great storage on the computer itself. I know I'm running a crappy crappity craptop with less hard drive space on it than the typical gmail account offers, that I have over a hundred gmail invitations that I can give away at my leisure, that if I became tired of that I could use yahoo's briefcase service etc.
There're so many offsite storage solutions available for free to the average user that lacking a hard drive worth crud isn't really a problem anymore. Hell, if it has over 24 megs of RAM then you could take a couple of blueflops floppies and load your entire OS into it every time you wanted to use it, have a graphical browser and a word processor and other stuff available to you and still offload anything you want to save to offsite storage.
In fact, this is sounding like a decent business plan. Maybe I should make a few craptops designed around this principal and see how they sell. I could probably make a reasonable profit if people were willing to pay fifty dollars for 'em.
Slashdot covering a news story? Weird.
Hey, at least it has been covered before, though, right?
I pronounce mysql as my skwill
See, now, I archive emails in gmail a hell of a lot, so I do use gmail search all the time and have to say that if it's a choice between either searching through folders/looking back eight months for the email from the people at FAFSA that told me how ot get in touch with them, and searching for the word "FAFSA", I'd rather do the search.
When I think of all the emails I've deleted due to only having 1MB or 2MB to use, and then I think of my situation now where I can hit archive and forget about it until I need to search for a keyword, well, if Gmail would have come along several years ago then my life would have been a lot simpler.
That's why this post above yours linked to the mirrodot mirror of the video.
Strictly speaking, vegetarianism is a lifestyle choice, not a dietary one. The diets are carnivorous, omnivorous, and herbivorous.
Small point, but worthwhile noting whenever someone claims they're a dietary vegetarian. They're not - they're a dietary omnivore living a vegetarian lifestyle.
This is speaking as a vegetarian of twelve years.
Either a joke in its own right or a reference to The Dark Knight Returns or both.
In windows, they're usually called shortcuts. In Mac OS they're an alias. Linux uses them as symbolic links.